Transformation of Trauma in Art

The art of Christof Drexel (1886-1979) (below) and Lilli Gettinger (1920-1999) (at right) address the experience of personal and collective trauma. This exhibition offers insight into artistic creativity as a process. The release of imagery, memory, and feeling buried in the unconscious mind and body is fundamental to the psychoanalytic conception of cure. Three curators explore the intimate connection between the creative and the therapeutic process as exemplified in the work of these extraordinary artists. RSVP here.

Allison Faye grew up in Germany and studied art in Israel at the Bezallel Academy. She has been a gallery and museum curator of contemporary and historical art.

Patricia Llosa, MFA is a Jungian analyst with a background in archaeology and the visual arts. She was an administrator and educator at the Metropolitan Meseum.

Sophia Richman, PhD, LP, ABPP is a Supervisor at NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Richman is author of A Wolf in the Attic: The Legacy of a Hidden Child of the Holocaust (Routledge, 2002), among other works.

Moderator, Steven Poser, PhD, CMPS, NYGSP faculty.

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